Theme: Put on a Hat!
17A: Fish farms: HATCHERIES
25A: Three consecutive goals: HAT TRICK
53A: Carolina cape: HATTERAS
62A: Female pharaoh: HATSHEPSUT
11D: Location of Southern Miss: HATTIESBURG
24D: Sharp-featured visage: HATCHET FACE
Luckily we had HAT TRICK in our puzzle last week. Otherwise, I would have struck out six straight times. HATSHEPSUT looks insanely wrong to me. Wikipedia says this lady was the fifth pharaoh of Egypt, and is generally regarded by Egyptologists as one of the most successful ones.
Took me a while to realize CIT (3D: U. S. voter) stands for citizen. Is it a common abbreviation? I was not familiar with it at all. I love America and American politics, but I don't have the right to vote. I don't have the patience and courage to go through INS application again. They screwed up my green card big last time. Obviously my Chinese name Zhouqin needs a "u" to make sense to others.
I'd like to have a survey today. If you read this blog every day, can you pop into the Comments section and introduce yourself? Tell me which city/state you are from. Maybe your favorite breakfast too.
Here is the detailed instruction on how to post a comment. I look forward to hearing from you. (Note: Please post your comment on today's Comments section rather than the instruction Comments part).
Across:
1A: Chocolate coffee: MOCHA. Named after the Yemen port city MOCHA, from which the coffee was exported. Yemen is the birthplace of coffee cultivation. But Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee itself.
10A: Cartoonist Addams: CHAS. No idea. Nickname for Charles? The creator of "The Addams Family".
30A: Nearby things: THESE. Oh, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)". I always thought they are made of THESE.
35A: Full of worthless stuff: DROSSY. Only know DROSS.
38A: Golfer Mediate: ROCCO. Gimme. ROCCO Mediate finished second at US Open last year. I don't know. I can never warm up to this guy. Maybe he needs to change his glasses.
40A: A-Team guy: MR. T
42A: Pianist Blake: EUBIE. Ah, EUBIE, why did you pick up this nickname? So hard for me to remember.
43A: In heaven: ON HIGH
47A: Chinawood oil: TUNG. Glory be! Have never heard of TUNG oil before. It's used as varnish ingredient for furniture. I recognized the Chinese character for TUNG tree (油桐) when I googled. Did not know it's also called China wood-oil tree.
56A: Martina of tennis: HINGIS. Shocked to learn she used cocaine. Maybe she should not have broken up with Sergio Garcia. They were cute together. Sergio is a close amigo of Rafael Nadal. And Tiger Woods is of course rooting for his pal Roger Federer. Now you know Tiger and Sergio are no real buddies. Hope US Open (Bethpage Black) this year is as entertaining as the 2002 one.
59A: Caspian sturgeon: BELUGA. This looks dangerous. I did not know BELUGA is that huge. What is the average size of BELUGA caviar then?
66A: 750 in letters: DCCL
67A: Cinema pooch: ASTA. And ASTRO (22D: "The Jetsons").
68A: TV journalist Frank: SESNO. I know how he looks like, but would not have got his name without the down fills. He used to appear on Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" often.
71A: Hebrew letter: TSADI. Nope. Can also be spelled as TSADE or SADHE. 18th of the 22 Hebrew letter. I only know the first one ALEF.
Down:
2D: Can or cup ending: OLA. I cook with canola oil. Oliver oil is too strong for me.
4D: One hundred : pref.: HECTO. As in hectogram. I know this prefix when I see it. But I can't spell it out without adjecent help.
12D: "Toys in the __": ATTIC. Easy guess. Not familiar with this Aerosmith album. Hmmm, Aerosmith sounds like a great name to play for an AERO clue. "Smith intro/head?".
23D: Eating utensil: SPOON. Bet Dennis wanted FORK. I really really like this Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture. That SPOON weighs about 5,800 pounds. Walker Arts Center just removed the cherry (1,200 pounds) to give it a fresh paint.
26D: Religious deg.: TH. D. (Theologicae Doctor). Doctor of Theology. Not a familiar abbreviation to me. Know SEM (29D: Theol. sch.) though.
32D: Minute trace: SCINTILLA
34D: Altar constellation: ARA. See this diagram. Latin for "Altar".
37D: Safecrackers: YEGGS. I wonder what's the origin of YEGG. It sounds Hebrew to me.
46D: Yep: UH-HUH
49D: "__ Cannonball": WABASH. Is this a very well-known song? I've never heard of it before. Very strange song title.
51D: Abridged version: DIGEST
55D: Fracas: SET-TO. Reminds me of the slangy & obscure squabble word RHUBARB we had last time.
65D: You, to Yves: TOI. "... C'est TOI pour moi. Moi pour TOI...."
C.C.
17A: Fish farms: HATCHERIES
25A: Three consecutive goals: HAT TRICK
53A: Carolina cape: HATTERAS
62A: Female pharaoh: HATSHEPSUT
11D: Location of Southern Miss: HATTIESBURG
24D: Sharp-featured visage: HATCHET FACE
Luckily we had HAT TRICK in our puzzle last week. Otherwise, I would have struck out six straight times. HATSHEPSUT looks insanely wrong to me. Wikipedia says this lady was the fifth pharaoh of Egypt, and is generally regarded by Egyptologists as one of the most successful ones.
Took me a while to realize CIT (3D: U. S. voter) stands for citizen. Is it a common abbreviation? I was not familiar with it at all. I love America and American politics, but I don't have the right to vote. I don't have the patience and courage to go through INS application again. They screwed up my green card big last time. Obviously my Chinese name Zhouqin needs a "u" to make sense to others.
I'd like to have a survey today. If you read this blog every day, can you pop into the Comments section and introduce yourself? Tell me which city/state you are from. Maybe your favorite breakfast too.
Here is the detailed instruction on how to post a comment. I look forward to hearing from you. (Note: Please post your comment on today's Comments section rather than the instruction Comments part).
Across:
1A: Chocolate coffee: MOCHA. Named after the Yemen port city MOCHA, from which the coffee was exported. Yemen is the birthplace of coffee cultivation. But Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee itself.
10A: Cartoonist Addams: CHAS. No idea. Nickname for Charles? The creator of "The Addams Family".
30A: Nearby things: THESE. Oh, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)". I always thought they are made of THESE.
35A: Full of worthless stuff: DROSSY. Only know DROSS.
38A: Golfer Mediate: ROCCO. Gimme. ROCCO Mediate finished second at US Open last year. I don't know. I can never warm up to this guy. Maybe he needs to change his glasses.
40A: A-Team guy: MR. T
42A: Pianist Blake: EUBIE. Ah, EUBIE, why did you pick up this nickname? So hard for me to remember.
43A: In heaven: ON HIGH
47A: Chinawood oil: TUNG. Glory be! Have never heard of TUNG oil before. It's used as varnish ingredient for furniture. I recognized the Chinese character for TUNG tree (油桐) when I googled. Did not know it's also called China wood-oil tree.
56A: Martina of tennis: HINGIS. Shocked to learn she used cocaine. Maybe she should not have broken up with Sergio Garcia. They were cute together. Sergio is a close amigo of Rafael Nadal. And Tiger Woods is of course rooting for his pal Roger Federer. Now you know Tiger and Sergio are no real buddies. Hope US Open (Bethpage Black) this year is as entertaining as the 2002 one.
59A: Caspian sturgeon: BELUGA. This looks dangerous. I did not know BELUGA is that huge. What is the average size of BELUGA caviar then?
66A: 750 in letters: DCCL
67A: Cinema pooch: ASTA. And ASTRO (22D: "The Jetsons").
68A: TV journalist Frank: SESNO. I know how he looks like, but would not have got his name without the down fills. He used to appear on Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" often.
71A: Hebrew letter: TSADI. Nope. Can also be spelled as TSADE or SADHE. 18th of the 22 Hebrew letter. I only know the first one ALEF.
Down:
2D: Can or cup ending: OLA. I cook with canola oil. Oliver oil is too strong for me.
4D: One hundred : pref.: HECTO. As in hectogram. I know this prefix when I see it. But I can't spell it out without adjecent help.
12D: "Toys in the __": ATTIC. Easy guess. Not familiar with this Aerosmith album. Hmmm, Aerosmith sounds like a great name to play for an AERO clue. "Smith intro/head?".
23D: Eating utensil: SPOON. Bet Dennis wanted FORK. I really really like this Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture. That SPOON weighs about 5,800 pounds. Walker Arts Center just removed the cherry (1,200 pounds) to give it a fresh paint.
26D: Religious deg.: TH. D. (Theologicae Doctor). Doctor of Theology. Not a familiar abbreviation to me. Know SEM (29D: Theol. sch.) though.
32D: Minute trace: SCINTILLA
34D: Altar constellation: ARA. See this diagram. Latin for "Altar".
37D: Safecrackers: YEGGS. I wonder what's the origin of YEGG. It sounds Hebrew to me.
46D: Yep: UH-HUH
49D: "__ Cannonball": WABASH. Is this a very well-known song? I've never heard of it before. Very strange song title.
51D: Abridged version: DIGEST
55D: Fracas: SET-TO. Reminds me of the slangy & obscure squabble word RHUBARB we had last time.
65D: You, to Yves: TOI. "... C'est TOI pour moi. Moi pour TOI...."
C.C.
